I subscribe to an RSS feed from the BBC about Manchester United. This feed contains match reports, previews and general news about Manchester United. However, the BBC has an infuriating habit of throwing in content from the Message Boards which are a forum for ‘fans’. Think 5 Live’s 606 radio phone-in but worse. Worse, this article appears in the feed as a new article on 15 December. This is a thread from the ‘606 message boards - Liverpool’. Newsgator displays the title as ‘If Liverpool don’t give Chelsea a run for their money this season, then we certainly will soon - DG’ and the Web page thread is named ‘well played today’ referring to Liverpool versus Chelsea. ...

Not many things make me laugh out loud. Pete Mitchell and Geoff Lloyd on the Virgin Radio breakfast show were very funny. Now they are leaving. Time to burn a few more CD’s for the tedious journey into work.

Once upon a time, I flew back from Lausanne in Switzerland to London. Although the skies were clear, there had been heavy thunderstorms earlier in the day so the plane was forced to hold above Heathrow. We flew around and around in circles for so long that we eventually had to divert to Bournemouth to refuel. This impromptu diversion confused the trio of Swiss people sitting behind me who thought London was ‘quite small’ and ‘very green’ and why ‘is no-one getting off’ after we had landed and sat around for 15 minutes on the runway at this small, provincial airport. ...

More recently, as I have started to scan more blogs and newsfeeds, I wanted a quicker, more efficient way of scanning through my growing list of RSS sources so I investigated a few alternative RSS readers or aggregators. It was quite interesting to see how your own blog looks displayed in a variety of different formats. All that self inflicted torture over the templates, the CSS stylesheets, the sidebars, the fonts, the bulleted lists is potentially meaningless when your reader might be reading a simple text feed with more control over the presentation than you, dear author. ...

A couple of years ago, I was staying at a posh hotel in Oslo. I returned to my room after a hard day’s work, looking forward to a very expensive glass of beer. I swiped my card and entered room 216. To my surprise, I found a strange man in there. He was emerging from the bathroom but thankfully, he was fully clothed and alone. My immediate reaction was to rapidly withdraw, apologising profusely. ‘Oh I am awfully sorry. I appear to have the wrong room’. As the layout and decor of the hotel was identical on each floor, I just assumed that I had mistakenly entered room 316 (instead of 216). ...